The Movies Database

Movie: Nick and Kate (2003)

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• Director: Matthew Mishory
• Run Time: 1 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Drama , Musical , Short

Trivia: Filmed in only two days in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara.

Movie: Nichts als Sünde (1965)

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• Director: Hans Burger
• Release Date: 15 October 1965 (East Germany)
• Run Time: Germany:101 min
• Country: East Germany
• Genre: Musical

Movie: Nha fala (2002)

“It has always been a firm conviction of the family that any woman who sings, will die. Now, while a girl is in France she becomes an international star. She realises that sooner rather than later her mother in Africa will learn that she sings. To solve this dilemma she goes back to her native village and arranges her own funeral, albeit with instantaneous rebirth. She is lying in the coffin while all invited guest form a queue and pass the coffin one by one. When she needs go to the toilet a boy will take her place. And then one of the guests says: How different she looks after having died. Is this an allusion to Bergman’s movie “Now About These Women”? Written by Max Scharnberg, Stockholm, Sweden”

• Director: Flora Gomes
• Release Date: 25 May 2003 (Portugal)
• Run Time: 110 min
• Country: Portugal , France , Luxembourg
• Genre: Musical

Tagline: Ma voix, mon destin, ma vie, mon chemin

Movie: Neznaika na lune – 2 (1999)

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• Country: Russia
• Genre: Adventure , Animation , Musical

Movie: Newsies (1992)

“July, 1899: When Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst raise the distribution price one-tenth of a cent per paper, ten cents per hundred, the newsboys, poor enough already, are outraged. Inspired by the strike put on by the trolley workers, Jack “Cowboy” Kelly (Christian Bale) organizes a newsboys’ strike. With David Jacobs (David Moscow) as the brains of the new union, and Jack as the voice, the weak and oppressed found the strength to band together and challenge the powerful. Written by Kaitlin Dwyer Rankins”

• Director: Kenny Ortega
• Release Date: 10 April 1992 (USA)
• Run Time: 121 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Drama , Family , Musical

Tagline: A Thousand Voices. A Single Dream.

Trivia: Most of the cast trained in dance and martial arts for ten weeks before filming commenced.

Goofs: Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Jack, Davey, and Les are being chased by Snyder, Les’ lips don’t move when he says, “All this for one sip of beer?”

Movie: The New-Fangled Wandering Minstrel Show (1973) (TV)

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• Director: Buddy Bregman
• Run Time: 49 min
• Country: UK
• Genre: Musical

Movie: New York, New York (1977)

“The day WWII ends, Jimmy, a selfish and smooth-talking musician, meets Francine, a lounge singer. From that moment on, their relationship grows into love as they struggle with their careers and aim for the top. Written by Steve Richer {sricher@sympatico.ca}”

• Director: Martin Scorsese
• Release Date: 21 June 1977 (USA)
• Run Time: 155 min | USA:163 min (1981 re-issue)
• Country: USA
• Genre: Drama , Musical , Romance

Tagline: The war was over and the world was falling in love again.

Trivia: Hollywood producer Julia Phillips has a silent bit part in the opening sequence, flirting with Robert De Niro in a nightclub. When the scene was finished she asked to keep her costume, (a black evening gown), and was put out when Scorsese made her write a check for it.

Movie: New York, New York (1966) (TV)

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• Release Date: 14 February 1966 (USA)
• Run Time: 60 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Musical

Movie: The New World School Musical Holiday (2005) (TV)

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• Director: Douglas Clark
• Country: USA
• Genre: Musical